I bought a small wifi dongle from aliexpress.com (china) for around 2$. (It took a month to get delivered at my place with free postal shipping option).
It just simply worked with Fatdog64.
It was a generic device with no brand name.
I gave it to a friend after few months though so can't check it's details now in PC.
Get something from local store. Better take laptop with you and check before buying. (Some owner's won't let you check before buying, but some friendly ones will)

How old/recent is your laptop? Have you tried other pups (or maybe Fatdog) with it?

What is the output of the following commands:

lsusb

and also:

lspci

It is probably impossible to suggest a wifi interface that is guaranteed to work unless we know what the laptop hardware is. (Especially if there is a potential conflict with the current wifi hardware or module).

If you don't want to do any troubleshooting I would probably say just get a "TPLink" usb style plug in wifi adapter.

Are you sure the internal WIFI is turned on?
A lot of laptops have a switch or keyboard key that turns wifi off/on.
On first boot up of a Puppy version.
Puppy will not turn wifi on automatically if it has this feature.

Quote:

Press and hold down the "Fn" function key on the computer's keyboard to display the laptop's hotkey card icons on the screen. 2. Click the "Wireless" icon on the screen or press the corresponding hotkey button on the keyboard, typically the "F8" key on a Toshiba laptop.

You could give this one a try if you specifically want a USB wireless adapter. AFAIK, this works in every Puppy I've ever tried it in.....and if your kernel should, by a freak of nature, not support the dongle, rcrsn51 does drivers for this one (the old trusty rtl8192cu):-

It's a wee bit more expensive than a lot of the 'generic' Far Eastern 'specials', but you get what you pay for.....and this one runs cool; it doesn't get hot like some do. Wireless 'N', and 150 MBps throughput.....which you're never likely to approach. Good range, and a rock-solid connection.

Perhaps the driver is recognized and the 'RADIO' is turned off .
'rfkill' app will turn it on.
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I have a Puppy distro which wouldn't work with the Broadcom internal card or an Intel that I bought, My friend gave me an Atheros, which I'm still using, which did work with that Puppy.
Maybe that was not a good way to solve it; but it worked.
I don't use the LibrePup any more, but it did work.
And the Atheros works with other Puppys._________________Dell E6410: Xenial, Bionicpup64, etc
Dell Mini 9, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P, PowerBook G4
Intel D865GBF, Intel DQ35JOE

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